Rick Corrigan This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.guidrynews.com

   www.guidrynews.com/04Community - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/24/2004   Last Visited: 8/4/2004

   Instructor Rick Corrigan and Class
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   Instructor Rick Corrigan (see photo) has a wealth of creative experience spanning 25 years, having produced graphic design and illustration for NASA, Reliant Energy, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Rice University, and others. He has performed exhibit design and event planning for Space Center Houston, and taught computer graphics classes at The Art Institute of Houston. He continues to freelance as an independent graphic designer and illustrator while giving workshops at The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake.

2. 2. Spacetaker.org | Culture when you want it.

   www.spacetaker.org - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/6/2005   Last Visited: 9/27/2006

   Instructor: Rick Corrigan
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   Instructor: Rick Corrigan

3. 3. Berkeley shop notes accordion revival

   www.timesstar-ang.com/S-ASP-BI - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/12/2001   Last Visited: 3/12/2001

   Your body has to get the feel of it , said instructor Rick Corrigan.
   
   The accordion is this incredible natural bio-feedback machine. You hit the C and then the chord , and it responds right away , and you say , Yeah , that feels good. Give me a piece of cheese and let me do it again.'.
   
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   As Corrigan said , your body has to get the feel of it -- that's because you darn sure can't see what you're doing. If it's like a typewriter on your chest , you have to learn to be a touch typist.
   
   There are all these buttons -- 120 of them just a hair's breadth apart -- under your left hand. These are your bass notes and chords. Hit a bass note button for the oom. Then punch twice on the chord button. Hence the pah-pah..
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   Corrigan handed out a map to these buttons , called the Stradella Bass Diagram , with dozens of little circles in rows with letters on them , which looked more like the periodic table of the elements.
   
   Corrigan , who plays the accordion in real life in his band called the pickPocket Ensemble , says he can teach you to play by ear -- even if you've never touched a keyboard in your life.'A coordination thing'.
   
   That's because the accordion is a coordination thing. There's the squeezing of the bellows. The rhythmic punching of the buttons. Then the melody on the keys. Now if you just had some gum to chew ...